Garden-rake.



A. E. ENGSTRiiM.

GARDEN RAKE,

APPLICATION FILED JAN.25, 1910.

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GARDEN-RAKE.

Application filed January 25, 1910.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 28, 1910.

Serial No. 540,038.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AXEL EMIL ENG- sTRoM, a subject of the King ofSweden, residing at Huskvarna, in the Province of Smaland and Kingdom ofSweden, have invented a new and useful Garden-Rake, of which thefollowing is a specification.

In cleaning gardens there has always been difliculty in raking underhedges, around trees and bushes, and like places, where ordinary rakescannot be used, it being necessary to use the hands for picking up deadleaves, grass, weeds, and the like, which have collected there.

The present invention refers to a rake especially constructed for useunder the aforesaid circumstances, and is set forth in the accompanyingdrawing, in which Figure 1 is a side view and Fig. 2 a plan of the rake,which is closed, or folded up in both figures. Fig. 3 is a plan of therake in an open posit-ion. Fig. 4 is a section of the head of the rakealong the line a?) in Fig. 3.

The rake is furnished with two handles, 1, 2, closely united at theirtop ends and are resilient so that they will spring apart after beingpressed toward each other. The head of the rake is hinged to the otherends of the handles 1, 2, and this head is divided into two sections, 4and 5, which are hinged to each other by the pivot 6 and to the handlesby the pivots 7, 7. These pivots 7 pass through holes in the ferrules 8,8 on the lower ends of the handles. The head 4, 5, is made of ironplate, with cut teeth, which constitute the tines of the rake. The crosssection of the head, 4, 5, is made U-shaped,

with one of the flanges, the one carrying the teeth or tines, somewhatwider than the other, the flanges being somewhat bent inward, so thatthey converge downward, as shown in Fig. 4. This inward bend of theinside flange is intended to prevent the cutting of grass, and the like,when the rake is folded together and the weeds are to be pulled up bythe roots. The inward bend of the outer flange is intended to preventthe rake from scraping ofl the bark from trees and bushes near which therake is used when folded together.

From the foregoing it will be seen that this rake, besides being used asan ordinary rake, can also be used to pull up weeds, and the like, ifthe rake is placed so that the weeds will come between the two sections4 and 5 of the rake head when the two handles are pressed toward eachother, the weeds then being pinched between the sections 4 and 5 andeasily pulled up. When the rake is to be used under hedges or aroundbushes, or in other close quarters, the handles are pressed more or lesstogether, so that there will be room for the rake handle.

I claim.

In a garden rake, the combination of two handles, connected together attheir extremities, and a rake head, consisting of two sections hinged toeach other and also each hinged to one of the handles.

AXEL EMIL ENGsTRoM.

Witnesses:

CARL O. SAHLBERG, HEDWIG MELINDER.

